Word: poste
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...became Gerald Ford's chief of staff. "He's bright. He doesn't have a mean streak. He deals with issues, not personalities. He doesn't run to the cameras," says Lee Hamilton, a leading House Democrat when Cheney was minority whip, the No. 2 G.O.P. leadership post in the House. "Dick always has been a person you can take ideas to and see how he reacts to them. You can confide...
...around that time, in 1983, that Cheney and his wife Lynne co-wrote Kings of the Hill, a very readable history of House leadership. One of their conclusions was that many of the most effective Speakers rose to power by taking an obscure post within the institution and making it important. Cheney did just that with the House Republican Policy Committee, a moribund operation whose chief function when he reached it in 1980 after only one term in Congress was to crank out explanations to members of the G.O.P. position on various issues. Cheney turned it into an internal party...
Riess was only 25 when he joined a prestigious group of scientists who set out in 1995 to measure what was expected would be a post-Big Bang cosmic slowdown. The idea was to compare the expansion rate today with the rate billions of years ago by gauging the speeds of exploding stars called supernovas--Riess's grad-school specialty. But in January 1998, Riess saw something weird: the number he was getting for the slowdown kept coming out negative. The universe wasn't slowing down; it was speeding up! "This seemed to imply," he says, "that some force...
...Lieberman was elected to the Connecticut State Senate, lost a 1980 bid for a seat in the U.S. Congress, and took over the post of state attorney general in 1982. He won a seat in the U.S. Senate in 1988, defeating a three-term Democrat whose liberal voting record provided Lieberman with plenty of ammunition...
Holding one post of the sign was an young woman anarchist with a shaved head and a red bandana mask. Holding the other was a nun in street clothes. She belonged to a group with signs that said, "Catholic sisters oppose the death penalty...